Geo P. Sells Oxen, George Buys Molasses

Tuesday March 23, 1852: My foot quite lame walking yesterday. Today John F. and Mr. Runnals drew logs to the mill with ox team and one horse team and drew 13 which makes 19 in all, three of them white ash and one black oak and 15 Hemlock and at night John F. fetched said Runnals ox sled load alder wood and said Runnals fetched me home a one horse load wood that I had left near the school house in the highway, and tonight I and John F. reckoned with said Runnals.
Wednesday: I went to Randall A. Brown’s store and I paid him one dollar on a subscription for Elder Havens, which makes up the two dollars that I signed for – I had paid the other dollar to Daniel Gardner. I paid 12 cts for a bottle of black ointment to put on my lame foot, and found Mr Burrel and he came with me to Wm Harrises and got me my empty jug that he agreed to have filled with molasses but he renewed his promise and agreed to pay me the dollar in cash in a short time.
Thursday: I carried five and a half pounds butter to Frederick Everett’s store and traded it at 1/6 pence per. I got in exchange two gallons molasses at 2/9 pence per.
Friday: At night Geo P. rode to Lebanon to Butcher Dike and Babcock’s, they had sent young Hatch and got the yellow fat ox today and butchered it and weighed one half, the other half the pole not stout enough. I sent by Geo P. and paid 12 cts for powder and shot to Gay’s store.
Wednesday: Stormy, snow and rain. We sorted over and put apples for market.
Thursday, April 1: I went to Pittsfield with one horse wagon and carried seven bushel greenings and one bushel common fruit and one  bushel of spitsenburgh for Geo P. and sold the whole to Cooley’s grocery at one dollar and six cts per bushel, and I paid to said Cooley’s grocery half a dollar for one gallon syrup molasses and half a dollar for eight pounds brown sugar. I sold 31 pounds butter at twenty cents per to Mr. Clark that takes care of the town paupers, and I gave three dollars of the butter money to my women. Today Geo P. drove his last yoke of fat oxen to Dike and Babcock, they came to one hundred and eight dollars and 60 cts and then Geo P. walked to Pittsfield. There he met Samuel Minor and bought a yoke of five year old oxen and paid him the cash for them and Geo P. drove them home.